About 10 minutes after I got back from Girl's Camp some friends of ours got married. It was a happy day!!! You could just see how in love they are. 

 

They are also two of the cutest people I have ever kown. And they have the most beautiful kids!!

 Our friend Vanessa Made the flowers....SO PRETTY!!!

 Told you their kids were dang cute!!!

I'm no photographer, and technical stuff aside...I love this shot.

Awe......

YEAH!!!!!

It was a great few days. I spent Sunday working on the gum paste flowers for the cake, and then Monday Vanessa baked the cakes,a nd monday night we started decorating them. Tuesday night we got them as finished as they would get until we assembled them at the church. We also decoarted the reception that night.... With a team of around 10 or so people we turned this room.......

Into THIS!!! It felt like a totally differnt space, and it was so nice during the reception. Simple, but happy and just perfectly them.We were all pretty proud of how it trned out!!

Really quick...Here's the cake Vanessa and I made!!! Our first wedding cake....awe.... We took the design from Peggy Porchen.

These are my Gum Paste Flowers....Oh my sake - so fun to make these after I got the hang of it!!! However; putting them together was TERRIFYING!!!!

They are fragile...like push too hard with the frosting tip and they shatter fragile. But they were pretty!!

More to come on OMC next week!!

CONGRATS Kurtis & Crystal!!!! Love you guys!!!!!

2 months....10 layers

35.6 POUNDS!!!!

AND 4 1/2 of my favorite people came into town last week. We got to hand out with them last monday and because we're quirky like that...we made a 14 layer cake. nly it only had 10 layers. We got the recipe from bakerellas site...but it was written so screwy we had to just kind of make do...it was so much fun!!! And it turned out so well!!!

We did peanut butter cups on top because Brady thought it would be awesome...Apparently he was right...Oh gosh! sorry Poodle! How in the world did that get in there???
Look how pretty it is!!!

Everyone said it tasted good too! It was so much fun to make!!!! Thanks for playing Betty Crocker with my Kristy!!!! Love you guys!!!

Jer was entertaining the boys while we baked... Hudson is totally warming up to him!!

On A Scale Of 1-10

...My night was a 25.

Jer and I both had a L-O-N-G Day at work, so we decided - no work tonight. We would go get food and run a couple of errands and rent a movie and just chill. One of the errands we went to run was to visit my friend Debbie. Debbie is fabulous!! She's on my sidebar, and she's SO funny!!! Anyway I got a text from her on Friday saying she had something for me and she was really excited about it and that she was just busting to tell me what it was. of course I had to know so I asked for a clue.

Of course I guessed the most ridiculous idea I could come up with.

She couldn't believe I guessed right.

Wanna see my fun new toy???

How insane is that??? She entered a contest and WON!! And then because she has a heart of GOLD she just gave the prize to ME!!! It took me a while to believe her.

I'm in love. I can't wait to try this out on Monday!!!! And look at that gorgeous case it came with...sigh...I kind of wish it were purse size. Isn't that the coolest thing EVER!!!!

THANK YOU DEBBIE!!!! You're Amazing and wonderful and I LOVE YOU!!!! THANK YOU for the coolest gift I've ever been given by someone I'm not sleeping with!!!!! You're THE BEST!!!

I know.

Sorry. Three poss in one day? Seriously Sarah?

But This is worth it. I'm so craving chocolate. (the mini cadburry eggs in my house took a hit last night. true.) and I've seen this before and thought it would be fun, but...today it's more than would be fun. it's like a need.

Who wants to come bake with me?

14 layer CAKE

No not seriously...kind of seriously...

wild and crazy friday night

What did you do last night??

Basketball Bride Cake

I am finally doing this.

Brie is a sports fanatic, so her shower was a sports theme. I was asked to do a basketball cake.

It's a Yellow Cake with a Vanilla Frosting. I made the bride's bouquet into a basketball. Pearl edgings and a basket ball hoop weaved trim were the perfect touches on this cake!! I think it turned out really well. And it was REALLY fun to make!!

CONGRATS BRIE AND CHRIS!!!!

hehehehe

My Boss turns 40 today...So I made HIM a cake...

I took this with my phone so it's not great - I'll post better ones later...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRINCESS JOEL!!!

My Sweet Husband decided yesterday after church that he would make a cake to take to his mom's house for dinner for Mother's day. I thought - he's had a long weekend, so I offered to help. "No no - I got it!" okay then...so I read my book.

I went into the kitchen a little while later and saw that he had used me biggest square pan, and only one cake mix....so it was rather thin. I suggested he maybe cut it in half to make it a little taller - maybe with a frosting filling. "Yeah that's a good idea!"

I kept reading. I went back in a while later to watch him frost the cake....

He was operating on Duffs Theory (from ace of cakes) that if something on the cake is wrong you can just cover it up with frosting...Jeremy's Cake was missing a corner.....

So it got covered in "flowers"

He was rushing maybe a little bit on the bottom here...

this is him filling in some more "flaws in the cake" with "flowers"

In the end - this is what we had for desert yesterday. Now maybe it was a little lop sided, and maybe the frosting didn't taste very good, and maybe it was a bit rough, but we laughed a LOT!!! And that totally made up for all the other stuff!!

Thanks Babe!!!

So to all you Moms who work so hard to keep your kids out of the hospital and therapy :

I DID IT!!!!

I sold my first cake!!!! Didn't the butterflies turn out AWESOME??!! I seriously loved them!!

TA DA!!!!!

Sorry the colors are all wonky... I need to work on the photography part... ;)

Flutterbyes

I'm working on my first commissioned cake tonight....I'm pretty stoked about this one actually!! I stole the idea from a book, and changed it to make it work for this even.t it's for a bridal shower of Jer's cousin's best friend's daughter...got that? yeah me neither. But her wedding colors are sunset colors, so I was going to do an orange fondant, and then yellow decorations and pink butterflies...well the orange frosting I made (you are supposed to frost the cake first then put the fondant on so it sticks better) looked so pretty I decided to skip the whole fondant thing. I really like the color!! I'm just waiting for the last cake to cool and then I can finish frosting and do all the piping and then I'll just put the butterflies on tomorrow when I get there...YEAH!! I'm really excited!! I hope this works!!!!!!!!!

Also at 2pm tomorrow (real time for all you who have to deal with daylight savings...) Jer is taking the 1st of 2 tests for his A+ certification. He's been working really hard for this, and He's so excited, but because he is human he is also a little nervous... and I am too. I know he will pass, but...it's so important to him...if you can would you mind sending out some happy thoughts to him...Happy thoughts are good...prayers are better :)

Anymore I pretty much make a cake (or fondant or frosting or cookies) once a week to practice some sort of technique. A couple of weeks ago Jer and I were invited to dinner and I was asked to bring desert, so I made this:
It's not that great, but I literally did the swirls & piping in like 3 minutes. I like the color though...

I made these a few weeks go...that are mini cakes covered in Ganache. They tasted way better than they looked.

These are this weeks project. Butterflies. Out of Frosting. These are the steps I took...piped the outline...let them dry

flooded the middles...

Let them Dry...

Throw ice water on them and start over...

I will Finish them tonight...If I manage not to ruin them again and they turn out okay i may post more pictures...we shall see...